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Solenopsis geminata

Tropical fire ant

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Solenopsis geminata (Fabricius, 1804)

GBIF · view at source · updated on 03/07/2026

Tropical Fire Ant

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Animalia · Arthropoda · Insecta · Hymenoptera · Formicidae · Solenopsis

Solenopsis geminata

Wikidata · view at source · CC0 · updated on 03/07/2026

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(c) Reynante Martinez, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Reynante Martinez · CC BY · iNaturalist

(c) Jake Nitta, some rights reserved (CC BY), uploaded by Jake Nitta · CC BY · iNaturalist

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Occurrences (GBIF) 100 countries · 16529 records

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Occurrences by year

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Year	Records
1885	4
1890	2
1892	2
1893	1
1896	1
1900	1
1903	6
1905	2
1906	22
1911	2
1913	6
1914	4
1915	5
1916	14
1919	2
1922	8
1923	4
1924	2
1925	3
1926	4
1927	3
1928	9
1930	39
1932	5
1933	2
1934	8
1936	26
1937	2
1938	10
1939	14
1940	6
1941	38
1944	4
1945	3
1946	2
1948	8
1949	6
1950	11
1951	3
1954	6
1955	6
1956	5
1957	31
1958	9
1959	2
1960	9
1961	2
1962	1
1963	3
1964	2
1965	20
1966	11
1967	8
1968	26
1969	6
1970	7
1971	8
1972	89
1973	46
1974	72
1975	19
1976	23
1977	2
1978	9
1979	31
1980	14
1981	21
1982	125
1983	14
1984	22
1985	73
1986	32
1987	78
1988	223
1989	775
1990	357
1991	106
1992	104
1993	40
1994	12
1995	97
1996	556
1997	15
1998	10
1999	70
2000	28
2001	35
2002	8
2003	537
2004	296
2005	407
2006	329
2007	453
2008	444
2009	316
2010	405
2011	184
2012	340
2013	342
2014	174
2015	344
2016	144
2017	47
2018	85
2019	2,575
2020	254
2021	1,141
2022	1,239
2023	737
2024	613
2025	568
2026	281

Colombia · 4,516 Mexico · 1,898 United States · 1,812 Costa Rica · 1,484 India · 905 Ecuador · 824 Guatemala · 378 Trinidad & Tobago · 340 Guadeloupe · 289 Dominican Republic · 184 Madagascar · 183 Taiwan · 173 Puerto Rico · 171 Honduras · 170 Thailand · 165 Philippines · 162 Cuba · 160 U.S. Virgin Islands · 160 Brazil · 151 French Polynesia · 150 Mauritius · 146 Grenada · 140 Martinique · 124 Réunion · 118 Nicaragua · 103 Indonesia · 85 St. Vincent & Grenadines · 84 Vietnam · 78 Mayotte · 76 St. Lucia · 71 El Salvador · 71 Jamaica · 70 Palau · 65 Caribbean Netherlands · 59 Barbados · 58 Australia · 53 Belize · 52 Montserrat · 49 Curaçao · 45 Venezuela · 45 Guam · 42 Malaysia · 41 Antigua & Barbuda · 39 Haiti · 39 Panama · 38 British Virgin Islands · 33 Fiji · 30 Aruba · 26 St. Kitts & Nevis · 26 Cambodia · 26 Cook Islands · 26 British Indian Ocean Territory · 25 Sri Lanka · 23 Dominica · 18 China · 17 Japan · 15 Myanmar (Burma) · 14 Peru · 13 French Guiana · 11 New Caledonia · 11 Vanuatu · 11 Unknown Region · 9 Singapore · 9 St. Martin · 8 Papua New Guinea · 8 Gabon · 7 Tonga · 7 Cayman Islands · 6 Sint Maarten · 6 South Africa · 6 Timor-Leste · 5 Northern Mariana Islands · 4 Liberia · 4 St. Barthélemy · 4 Anguilla · 4 Laos · 4 Bangladesh · 3 Bahamas · 3 Côte d’Ivoire · 3 Ghana · 3 Guyana · 3 Turks & Caicos Islands · 3 Lesotho · 2 Wallis & Futuna · 2 U.S. Outlying Islands · 2 Suriname · 2 Solomon Islands · 2 Rwanda · 2 Maldives · 2 Kiribati · 2 Micronesia · 2 Cameroon · 2 Canada · 2 Argentina · 1 Congo - Kinshasa · 1 United Kingdom · 1 Macao SAR China · 1 Paraguay · 1 Tanzania · 1 Hong Kong SAR China · 1

India 29/06/2026 · Vishwa Wishtohelp · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

India 26/06/2026 · sarayusirikonda · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

French Polynesia 25/06/2026 · adamgoodman · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Malaysia 24/06/2026 · nurdalisa_12 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Hong Kong SAR China 24/06/2026 · Felix Chong · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Colombia 24/06/2026 · Female · juan_88 · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Philippines 24/06/2026 · Female · Gabriel · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

India 22/06/2026 · Soyeb Ahmed Nazir · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

Philippines 22/06/2026 · Female · Gabriel · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode · original record

Ecuador 22/06/2026 · austin6a · iNaturalist · http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode · original record

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